Yeah, I must be clear that it's still a really bad winter. But now skiing off piste is becoming physically possible.

Western austria is starting to ski "normal" as of today, at least for the post holiday period. Like you can start skiing fast.

The base to about 15-1600 is basically established, with very low...

I feel like it's been a pretty decent Winter in Montafon. North facing things at middle elevations have stayed mostly soft. I just ski the same thing over and over again anyway, so very limited...

Hoping for a little cool snow on top for tomorrow morning. We'll see.

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Skis for sale in EU: PM Gear Kusala, Revolt 104, Down CD4, EHP, Wootest, Hoji ...

Validates my decision to stay inside. Glad no one was hurt.

What a day! Same thing here where they opened stuff that had been closed for almost a week. You could do no wrong! Powder hounds were getting it!

Must get spoons!

Maybe the best powder day of the year today. The mega dump in Jan was too deep to ski while it was happening.

Was wondering what all the dirt was from.

Just had one of the more surreal skiing experiences of my life. For about an hour, on a sunny powder day, I was the only person skiing powder.

We're fucked now. Maybe it lightens up, but maybe not.

If ski touring is out too... I'll just skateboard.

I have a feeling it's going to be a banger winter though, so that's not good for...

Skied yesterday in Montafon, lifts are running today, but I have a cold.

It was kind of crazy yesterday. Deep fluff and low wind at 1800m. Upside-down windblasted snow from 900-1200m.

I fucking love that map! I'm constantly on there. I get upset when I go to Tyrol and lose the good map. Forests are green on the map.

Right now the key is to stay low and out of danger. There is good skiing to the valley in Schruns.

That's Amazing!

We had a couple of people drop out of an annual freeride course I organize.

Location: Montafon
Duration: 6 Days Guiding/Coaching
Price: Less than a K
Dates: Feb 17-22
Accommodations: Includes...

Video from the end of last season I never shared. Excuse the newb newsman thing, I'm working on it...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXzxQrX7mM

Latest video for the ski area. Shot in late Feb.

It's been a great winter and nice having lifts out of town. I'm pretty happy with the amount of ski time considering I having a 3mo and soon to be...

Maybe weird stoke, but I'm just working on my video editing skills, don't judge:

https://youtu.be/QmzL9nirG0s

Oh, and I convinced the ski area here to let me make videos for them. I'm now a...

Don't want to break the flow too much, haven't checked into this post in a while. Glad everything turned out ok. I've got a 22month old and a 4 week old, so I can imagine the emotional stress of all...

Yeah, I was just about to say: Euro tracked out is ~ 10% of 'Murika tracked out.

Going from USA mega resort to Euro mega resort sometimes has me angry when getting fresh in certain spots. It's...

This is like a "Where's Waldo" of clusterfuck.

I was out on Sunday and saw 3 skiers set off slides in the fingers/needles chutes in Zurs while waiting for the bus. You could see two more slabs that had pulled out with tracks going it them. Rocky,...

Had some human powered fun in the lift served zone with MattD last Saturday. Another round tomorrow hopefully.

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Hopefully it wasn't too messed up.

I wish I had skis on the Jamtalferner on Weds. Got some flatlanders over it, lots of probing and post holing though.

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Hopefully the heat will do something to the super un-cohesive sluffy layer with hoar on top. That's gonna be a mess with some fresh snow stacked on it.

It was coming down pretty hard in st anton all day. The west side of the pass seemed to be catching the good stuff though, as I saw from the train window at 2:30. Maybe it was just because it was...

I was just about to ask if anyone had any previous experience with the authorities regarding tree skiing, and if you could talk your way out of it. Seems like Klar knows how to hold it down.

Euro tech talk: Does anyone have a good online source for machine screws (m5, various lengths/heads), also a ski screw supplier? Baumax isn't cutting it.

Oh yeah, skiing... Arlberg tomorrow....

What about the season that wasn't a few years ago, where it was raining on a baseless Baker in February.

Gotta shred what you get.

Edit: Toby posted

I'll be up in st anton around noon. It was quite deep and fluffy today in non wind affected areas. Wind effected stuff was upside down and slabby. I jammed a turn on a rollover to get it to pop and a...

Yeah, I saw the biggest snowflakes of my life in feldkirch this morning, it was snowing potato chips.

I'm game. I broke down and bought an arlberg pass on saturday. It's still snowing up there. I'll probably be up there solo regardless.

I'll be around until december 22nd, then i'll head back to the US for a few weeks. No pass now, and when I come back I'll probably go arlberg. Missed the early season prices at montafon, so now it's...

I'm getting married on friday :nonono2:

But then I'll be a european :the_finge

Honeymoon in Lech should be a good start ;)

I just got back from touring in lech. It's getting deep. Like a meter, and it started puking so hard at 2pm when I left. Zurs was a total snow white out. Touring in the fresh sucked, way too deep....

Yeah, but the closest one is in Garmisch, I think. Maybe I can go for a day trip to there and loop back through IBK.

Thanks, anything good in st anton? It takes me less time to get up there than wald/kloesterle because it's just all train, no bus. I'm just trying to avoid a trip to innsbruck to try on the latest...

Does anyone know of a real ski/touring shop in Vorarlberg? I can't find much online and Intersport is not really selling my type of gear.

http://paintbrushsolutions.com/ski-arlberg.jpg

Popped my euro ski cherry and made critical use of the smooth grass under the snow in Lech.

The backflip around 34 secs was insane. I can't believe he got it around that far... strong dude. Cool video.

Sorry to intrude on your shred talk, but I have a quick question about camping in Austria.

Specifically in Vorarlberg.

I'm driving down from Germany with my girlfriend to check out a...